A Brief History of the Web
The Web has been plagued by a perplexing number, and a remarkable variety, of security issues. Certainly, some of these problems can be attributed to one-off glitches in specific client or server implementations, but many are due to capricious, often arbitrary design decisions that govern how the essential mechanisms operate and mesh together on the browser end.
Our empire is built on shaky foundations—but why? Perhaps due to simple shortsightedness: After all, back in the innocent days, who could predict the perils of contemporary networking and the economic incentives behind today’s large-scale security attacks?
Unfortunately, while this explanation makes sense for truly ancient mechanisms such as SMTP or DNS, it does ...
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